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I'm just playing elements for an week. Here is one deck suggestion I'm currently using (quite successfully). I started with darkness mark. Any help, feedback, suggestions are welcome!
As I experience more, I will add to this post/topic.
The idea behind is to quickly get some dragons out and with few attacks finish your opponent off. I call it
"Double Dragon" cause a Black dragon and a Parallel universe are played in the same round, meaning 2 dragons appear on the battlefield.
Ok now some explanation to the cards I've chosen and how to play that deck. My mark is
and the ?? is the Aether pendulum.
The cards - Obsidian pillar: You should have at least one in your starting hand, once you gain 5-6 quanta each turn you should be able to play almost all of your darkness cards.
- Devourer: Usually you are able to play 1 devourer in your second turn, they help to get you mana in the beginning, stop your opponent a bit and beeing the preys for opponents spells.
- Black Dragon: The main creature of that deck. Once you gain 5 quanta per turn, you can play a dragon every second turn. It's a good idea to keep 1 dragon in your hand for the use with Parallel Dimension or later Fractal.
- Dusk mantle: Prevent your opponent from attacking, 1 should be enough cause in hard times you will use the Dimensional shield.
- Steal: A must have in every darkness deck but wait until you get really something useful, or steal the opponents most essential permanent. Most of the time it is used to remove your opponents shield, that your dragons can attack.
- Vampire Stiletto: Not much to say, weapon but the drain life 4 is more useful. Play it when you can. Better to have this destroyed than your shields.
- Liquid Shadow: Another real nasty card after steal. Usually you use it on low health/attack cards with nasty abilities (Maxwells demon, Phoenix, Fallen elf...) as lobotomize+infection or in the end of an battle use it on your own dragons to gain life if neccessary.
Some comments/ideas on other
cards:
- Nightfall: Get the hand off that card. You want to win with few monsters so usually with Nightfall you don't get anything but may be helping your opponent.Only may be 1 health more for your dragons seems nice.
- Other creatures ( Gargoyle, Parasite, Minor Vampire ) are not needed, slow things down.
- Drain Life: May be an option to kill creatures and heal. Usually you spent the quanta for your dragons.
- Aether Pillar: When you get 3-4 quanta each turn, it should be ok, 1 is defintely too less.
- Parallel Universe: Works instantly, so together with the dragon you do 20 damage (on surprise) for only 17 quanta - not too bad I guess. Usually your opponent will be able to take out one black dragon or weaken it in some way. So when you play the dragon one round earlier you might not be able to copy it or just copy it with an negative effect on it. Of course you also can copy useful creatures from your opponent.
- Dimensional shield: Used when you will be hurt seriously, even dusk mantle can be replaced by that if necessary. Nice combination with Liquid Shadow when the creatures can't drain for 3 turns.
- Fractal: Play it on a dragon to finish your opponent off. No I'm not joking. Do this when you can play 2-3 dragons this turn or you need just 1 more dragon to win the game. The good thing this also can be played on "ill" dragons.You will not be able to play all of them, 2 or 3 are usually enough.Your opponent can't react to this attack. (like playing Stone skin, Miracle or Heal.)
- Lobotomizer: Weapon doing 5 dmg, skill is used seldom, usually Liquid Shadow is just better..
- Aether Peundulum: Since you need quanta from both types this works well.
Some comments/ideas on other
cards:
- Quintessence: Don't use this, you can't copy your dragons then.
- Other creatures (Spark, Immortal, Phase Dragon, Phase Spider) are not needed.
- Mindgate: How to use this? Don't see anthing...
- Lightning: May be an option to kill creatures.
The (basic) stategy:A good starting hand is when you have an Obsidian Pillar, Aether Pillar, Devourer, Black Dragon and Parallel Universe.
Play the Devourers as soon as you can.
Try to save the quanta to be able to play a Black Dragon and a Parallel Universe on the same turn.
React to your opponent (Steal, Liquid Shadow, Shields, Vampire Stiletto) don't waste these cards.
Try to use fractal on your dragons to finish your opponent in one big attack.
(Level 3 farming takes less than 2 minutes per game with an win rate of over 90 %. Don't laugh I'm new to the game.)
What to steal:
- Shields (be sure not to try to steal bonewall!)
- Weapons (more in a defensive way to prevent your opponent from attacking or using special abbilities)
- Other permanent that might help your opponent (Boneyard, Empathic Bond, Golden Hourglass, Mindgate)
Weaknesses:General stuff
- anything that drains your quanta (Devourer,Earthquake, Discord)
- anything that prevents you from attacking (Dissipation Shield, Sundial, Freeze, Basilisk Blood, Dimensional Shield,Procrastination)
- anything that "removes" your shields (Steal, Deflagration, Momentum)
Certain cards
- maxwell's demon (can kill 1 dragon per turn)
- bonewall (don't know how to overcome this)
- otyugh (devour the devourers and then the dragons)
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Against other marks in general: (some impressions)
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Against certain decks:
- Rainbow: good rainbow decks are very hard to beat, since usually they try to go for a long game
- Mono Aether: Dragons + Dimensional shield, easy to beat never lost a single game
- Mono Darkness: Devourers or Darkness : Aether Devourer + Fractal..very hard to beat, if you can stop them in the beginning and get some dragons out you have a small chance..otherwise you'll loose
- Life: Forest scorpion + adrenaline...when you get your shields out you should win this
CU Viking 8)
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Changelog:
- 27.08.2010 Original post
- 29.08.2010 Update: Deck (added 1 Black Dragon, 1 Lobotomizer, 2 Aether Pendulums), some deck description,formating text, weaknesses, against other marks
Add: what to steal , against certain decks
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Liquid shadow is seldom used on your dragons. Its effective on opponent creatures with adrenaline..so they die faster. 
